no code implementations • 22 Dec 2022 • Marco Ferrante, Nicola Ferro, Norbert Fuhr
Moffat's comments build on: (i) misconceptions about the representational theory of measurement, such as what an interval scale actually is and what axioms it has to comply with; (ii) they totally miss the central concept of meaningfulness.
no code implementations • 7 Jan 2021 • Marco Ferrante, Nicola Ferro, Norbert Fuhr
Recently, it was shown that most popular IR measures are not interval-scaled, implying that decades of experimental IR research used potentially improper methods, which may have produced questionable results.